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they come to our court looking to meet with us and talk to us and to each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i travel to law school. but i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about helen so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with people i can get them to understand our legal system below the better i hope that they become better citizens , more active citizens working in the community and improving for everyone. so we are busy on lots of different levels, not just being in the courtroom. the hours that lawyers have argued cases before us, it is a microcosm of the work that we put into it. >> the most popular question submitted was how did the justices get a long? [laughter] now, i know that relations among you all are deeply collegial, so i am wondering, what other conference rituals and the ways you all build relationships? >> its starts with respect. if you comment to this process appreciating that every single justice on the court has a passion and a love for the constitution and our country that is equal to mine menino that if you accept that as
they come to our court looking to meet with us and talk to us and to each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i travel to law school. but i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about helen so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with people i can get them to understand our legal system below the better i hope that they become better citizens , more active citizens working in the community and improving for everyone. so we are busy on lots of different levels,...
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all of us are sinners. all of us have done wrong. all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you are an adult, you have broken the law at some point in your life. i find that some people will say oh, yes, i'm a sinner. i have made mistakes, but do not call me a criminal. do not call me a criminal. and i say, okay, maybe you never drank underage. maybe you never experimented with drugs. the worst thing you have done in your entire life is speed 10 miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you put yourself and others in the risk of harm that someone smoking marijuana at the privacy of their own living room. but there are people serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses. life sentences. the u.s. supreme court upheld life sentences for first-time drug offenders against an eighth amendment challenge that such sentences were cruel and unusual in the u.s. supreme court said no, no, it is not cruel and unusual to sentence a young man to life imprisonment for a first-time drug offenders, even though virtually no o
all of us are sinners. all of us have done wrong. all of us have broken the law at some point in our lives. if you are an adult, you have broken the law at some point in your life. i find that some people will say oh, yes, i'm a sinner. i have made mistakes, but do not call me a criminal. do not call me a criminal. and i say, okay, maybe you never drank underage. maybe you never experimented with drugs. the worst thing you have done in your entire life is speed 10 miles over the speed limit on...
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the end result should not surprise us. with welfare and regulation with the expanding number of beneficiaries until things get so bad there is no alternative. but there is a political problem that people see this day as the primary provider of economic security, restraint of spending is politically difficult. why? anyone who promises to use intervention in real terms it is at a severe electoral disadvantage. as famously limited 2007 womack we know what we have to do but we don't know how to get reelected once we have done it quote. if people with security through the state to have the desire if 51 percent of the population is to resist electoral rejection or rioters running amok in the streets of athens. it is very tempting to see this as a western european problem as it is a continent where any center-right government's are a specially -- essentially social democratic intervention is seen as normal across the political spectrum. can anyone seriously denied politicians including conservatives also play the game or american
the end result should not surprise us. with welfare and regulation with the expanding number of beneficiaries until things get so bad there is no alternative. but there is a political problem that people see this day as the primary provider of economic security, restraint of spending is politically difficult. why? anyone who promises to use intervention in real terms it is at a severe electoral disadvantage. as famously limited 2007 womack we know what we have to do but we don't know how to get...
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the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to try and reduce the scope of intervention in real terms is in many respects at a severe electoral disadvantage. at luxembourg's prime minister jean-claude junker famously lamented in 2007, quote, we all know what we have to do, but we don't know how to get reelected once we have done it, end quote. in other words, if enough people in a democracy what security through the state regardless of cost, capacity politicians to oppose desires of 51% of the population is very limited. because to resist is to court electoral rejection rsp sta
the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to...
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you used the right word, use of prudence. he writes his books because he wants to strengthen the arms of prudence. i don't know -- >> that's right. that's a classic example. he does everything right. he follows all the rules and he dies. and so he loses that but i think michael is exactly right. you don't write a book that has no utility, that has no use for you or others and they think he was thinking about a very practical set of things you can do short of that. before we die let's see what we can do. >> i had a question about one chapter that i don't think we have talked about yet which is the last chapter, which is always struck me as the most wildly utopian chapter in the entire book, that it's possible to do great deeds and all the people i've been praising in this book, moses, cyrus, theseus and romulus are just men like you. and the fact that they faced really horrible difficult situations, that just lets you display and then the one word we haven't talked about, you can then perform these virtuoso acts. so talk a lit
you used the right word, use of prudence. he writes his books because he wants to strengthen the arms of prudence. i don't know -- >> that's right. that's a classic example. he does everything right. he follows all the rules and he dies. and so he loses that but i think michael is exactly right. you don't write a book that has no utility, that has no use for you or others and they think he was thinking about a very practical set of things you can do short of that. before we die let's see...
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the power of propaganda and public opinion against us. all these factors are especially important in the theories of mow say tongue which is one of the great and, of course, most influential theorists of guerrilla warfare that there ever was, and he had a different view than that as practiced by the mow maddic warriors -- nomadic warriors of old. he wrote an incredibly influential book in 1938 called unprotracted warfare which he wrote sitting in a cave in northern china working so intently that he didn't notice that a fire from a candle was burning a hole in his sock. and what mao emphasized is as he famously said that people are like water, and the army is like fish. he said that it was search to keep -- it was essential to keep the closest possible relations with the people, that a guerrilla force had to be extremely cognizant of winning the support of the public upon whom it was operating. he gave instructions to his soldiers to be courteous and polite to pay for our articles and establish latrines a safe distance from people's houses
the power of propaganda and public opinion against us. all these factors are especially important in the theories of mow say tongue which is one of the great and, of course, most influential theorists of guerrilla warfare that there ever was, and he had a different view than that as practiced by the mow maddic warriors -- nomadic warriors of old. he wrote an incredibly influential book in 1938 called unprotracted warfare which he wrote sitting in a cave in northern china working so intently...
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you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> max boot presents a history of guerrilla warfare. the author poz its that unconventional warfare, often thought of as a modern means of war, has a long tradition that dates back to antiquity. this is a little under an hour. >> everybody got quiet. good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation and to our louis lehrman auditorium. we, of course, welcome those who are joining us on our heritage.org web site. for those in-house as we prepare to begin, please, make sure cell phones have been turned off. it is our courtesy our speakers do appreciate. we will post the program within 24 hours on our heritage home page for your further reference as well. hosting our event today is steven bucci. dr. bucci is director of our dougallyson center, he previously served as fellow for defense and homeland security. he is well verse inside the special area operations and cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil authorities. he se
you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> max boot presents a history of guerrilla warfare. the author poz its that unconventional warfare, often thought of as a modern means of war, has a long tradition that dates back to antiquity. this is a little under an hour. >> everybody got quiet. good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation and to our louis lehrman auditorium. we, of course,...
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you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week. matthew goodman recounts the story of two women journalists in the late 19th century who attempted to break the record for the fastest trip around the world "in eighty days." in "with charity for all: why charities are failing and a were the way to give," former ceo of npr ken stern investigates u.s. nonprofit organizations and argues that the industry needs to be reformed. pulitzer prize-winning reporter michael moss reports from inside the labs and boardrooms of the processed foods industry in "salt sugar fat." in the battle of bretton woods, benn steil, senior fellow and director of economics at the council on foreign relations recounts the united nations' monetary conference that took place in bretton woods, new hampshire, and resulted in the creation of the international monetary fund and the international bank for reconstruction and development. now part of the
you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week. matthew goodman recounts the story of two women journalists in the late 19th century who attempted to break the record for the fastest trip around the world "in eighty days." in "with charity for all: why charities are failing and a were the way to give," former ceo of npr ken...
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so i just used these three examples. one in the middle east, one in latin america, one in asia where they be able to do this. and this is an example of leadership to do what's necessary. i mean, n. korea, we've got this done in a couple of months, and four months later, they were raising -- $5 billion in international markets. because they just took a decision and went at it. >> a lot of the things you're talking about, the leadership, political leadership, timing, and the banking union, gave the banks back into lending and the fiscal pact in those components on that part. just as an aside, in talking about another country, russia. you know, russia desperately wants to reproduce itself to the rest of the world. and not in some of the main it has been. they get this opportunity with the g20 coming up in september. crystal ball, do you see anything from a coordination standpoint from the g20, and -- having out of this? this? and easy russia's image change? >> i think this is a big opportunity for the prime minister to show
so i just used these three examples. one in the middle east, one in latin america, one in asia where they be able to do this. and this is an example of leadership to do what's necessary. i mean, n. korea, we've got this done in a couple of months, and four months later, they were raising -- $5 billion in international markets. because they just took a decision and went at it. >> a lot of the things you're talking about, the leadership, political leadership, timing, and the banking union,...
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. -- to save us. now, i don't mean to be overly alarmist, but this is something we have to think about seriously, and what would happen if insurgents did get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction? this is a map that comes from a magazine that i'm sure all of you are avid readers of called the international journal of health geographics. you can check out your copy at home when you leave here today. what that map demonstrates is what would happen if a 20-kill lo ton nuclear device were to go off in downtown manhattan. now, a 20-kill ton device is not a very big nuke. the arsenals of the united states and russia are full of many, many, many nuclear weapons many, many, many times bigger than this. but this is a very rough and ready nuke of the kind that it would not be hard for the iranians or the north koreans or the pakistanis or others to design. so what would happen if one of these things was popped off in downtown manhattan? well, the map shows certain assumptions about wind speed and other fa
. -- to save us. now, i don't mean to be overly alarmist, but this is something we have to think about seriously, and what would happen if insurgents did get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction? this is a map that comes from a magazine that i'm sure all of you are avid readers of called the international journal of health geographics. you can check out your copy at home when you leave here today. what that map demonstrates is what would happen if a 20-kill lo ton nuclear device were to...
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used to go there regularly. and i think he along with paul volcker and the public sector side or major mentors of mine. and so i think it is fair to say , and you have seen this from the altar was the greatest banker of his age. and that is what city is going back to, i think, at this point in time. we have a lot of prez's city bankers, former citi bankers in this audience who will agree with me. so but as far as, you know, working with walter, and he is the one who got me involved in all of this. john reed later on. we are both, i think, significant world financial leaders. as far as having talked with a lot of people, i think meeting mandela, having dealt with a number of cases, spent an hour in 1980 with fidel castro. he wanted my advice on how to restructure the cuban debt. i said to mike and speak to you about that because we nationalized you in cuba. one of the first tax we did was nationalized the human bank. and then we're kind of even year. and this was in nicaragua. in fact, running the sandinista gove
used to go there regularly. and i think he along with paul volcker and the public sector side or major mentors of mine. and so i think it is fair to say , and you have seen this from the altar was the greatest banker of his age. and that is what city is going back to, i think, at this point in time. we have a lot of prez's city bankers, former citi bankers in this audience who will agree with me. so but as far as, you know, working with walter, and he is the one who got me involved in all of...
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send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/book tv. >> tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> political strategist bay buchanan has written a new book, "bay and her boys." tell us a little bit about it. >> well, the book is my story about being a single mom for 23 years. i payment a single mom when i was pregnant with my third son, and there's rough days, and there's good day, and what i did is throughout that time i never heard a positive message from the right or the left of encouraging words or instruction maybe that help us get along because the odds are against can kids who have only one mom or one parent in the home. so i wrote the book to just say it's a can-do book. look, you can do it. it's an upbeat, positive message not only for single moms, but for all parents. i think we all relate to some extent. and inside those covers are my heart and soul. those are my best years. >> people who know your career k
send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/book tv. >> tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> political strategist bay buchanan has written a new book, "bay and her boys." tell us a little bit about it. >> well, the book is my story about being a single mom for 23 years. i payment a single mom...
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this is one of those factors pushing us in that direction. now another big change is the nature of the welfare state. this is something which didn't exist in ninteenth-century 19thy ninteenth-century america. we were basically on our own. as we got older children to care of us in one of the basic reasons to have children. you have a gaggle of kids and you hope that one of them at least it's a good one and will look after you. and now we don't need to have that anymore. we have social security and medicare. it's still nice to have a child ... and to look at you as you begin to drool and watch more jeopardy but it's no longer necessary. all these little things and these tiny changes, some bigger and some smaller have pushed us in the direction of having fewer and fewer children. >> host: back to the issue you raised about the cost of children. you. you in fact mention this throughout the book. you talked about the increasing price of a child such as $1000 drillers for parents who want to get into that as well as some of the figures on the cost
this is one of those factors pushing us in that direction. now another big change is the nature of the welfare state. this is something which didn't exist in ninteenth-century 19thy ninteenth-century america. we were basically on our own. as we got older children to care of us in one of the basic reasons to have children. you have a gaggle of kids and you hope that one of them at least it's a good one and will look after you. and now we don't need to have that anymore. we have social security...
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some of us were able to go up and out. others of us could not. and so, we cleaved into two parts i think even then and i am not sure that those institutions that fought so hard at one time have fought the same tenacious battles for those who remain stuck today. so we have got the largest prison population in the world. over 2 million people, of the largest in the world-3/4 of those who face the death penalty are black and hispanic. half of the prison population is black. because of the way people's lives have been involved but also because of the unfairness in our criminal justice system. we see that for non-violent drug crimes. we constitute 14% of those who commit those crimes but roughly if i still have the figures right, if something like that a 6% of those prosecuted and close to 75% of those incarcerated. one sentence for a pound of cocaine and another sentence for crack-cocaine. the pound is essentially what white people used. the sentence is much lower than it is for crack-cocaine which is what black people have used. so the system is unf
some of us were able to go up and out. others of us could not. and so, we cleaved into two parts i think even then and i am not sure that those institutions that fought so hard at one time have fought the same tenacious battles for those who remain stuck today. so we have got the largest prison population in the world. over 2 million people, of the largest in the world-3/4 of those who face the death penalty are black and hispanic. half of the prison population is black. because of the way...
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that is the term that hits us. as high as 1.7i think for white americans and 3.9 not only did it not jump up and say that an entire generation it was a long-lasting effect and then by 1970 that momentum ended and we saw not only a gradual slowdown but dropping off the cliff and when it happened it happened everywhere in the west and in germany and france and america and its continued to slide and what is interesting is since then, the west has led the global fertility decline and since then you've seen all the other countries right now 97% of the world's population is in a country where the fertility rate is declining. in africa and europe and asia and what is really striking and what people don't typically pay attention to the actual fertility rate is high year than it is here in america. the rate of decline is generally steeper and if you look down in mexico and central america and south america while many of them solve a fertility rate above where we have the rate of decline so when you look at these numbers you
that is the term that hits us. as high as 1.7i think for white americans and 3.9 not only did it not jump up and say that an entire generation it was a long-lasting effect and then by 1970 that momentum ended and we saw not only a gradual slowdown but dropping off the cliff and when it happened it happened everywhere in the west and in germany and france and america and its continued to slide and what is interesting is since then, the west has led the global fertility decline and since then...
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but it was useful to use dulles as the bad cop. so the famous massive retaliation speech in which dulles said if the soviets try anything, basically, we're going to nuke 'em or words to that effect, everybody thought that was dell lues' speech. we found out years later by looking in the speech files thattizen hour had written the -- that eisenhower had written the key paragraph. but he wanted dulles to give the speech. so it was useful for ike to use john foster dulles as sort of the heavy. now, dulles occasionally got a little too heavy and said things that were incendiary and problematic. more problematic for ike was alan dulles, john foster dulles' brother who was the head of cia. a relationship entirely too cozy. and alan dulles was a huge risk taker. and at first some of these risks seemed to work. the coups in guatemala and iran which today look horrible but at the time looked like a way to contain communism on the cheap. they looked like they worked, they were success. this sure is better than sending in whole armies to do t
but it was useful to use dulles as the bad cop. so the famous massive retaliation speech in which dulles said if the soviets try anything, basically, we're going to nuke 'em or words to that effect, everybody thought that was dell lues' speech. we found out years later by looking in the speech files thattizen hour had written the -- that eisenhower had written the key paragraph. but he wanted dulles to give the speech. so it was useful for ike to use john foster dulles as sort of the heavy....
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they are well below us. in france it's higher. but all of the evidence suggests that's really because immigration. they had a great deal of immigration from north africa and the difference of fertility rates between native frenchmen and immigrant is enormous. at the least, at the least half a kid and possibly more statistics coming from france are dodgy. they don't let you take the numbers in explicitly by race and country origin and all of that. you look at the thing and i want to tell you what works and doesn't work. social conservative we like to think that everything is fine if we can get back to traditional values. there's evidence that suggests it may be not true either. singapore looks like what would happen if santorum went on steroids and able to do. you had the prime minister giving speeches about ten years ago about how, you know, sickle mother hood was terrible. you needed traditional family and we needed to have more women having family. the stuff of social conservative dreams. it was coupled with generous, generous g
they are well below us. in france it's higher. but all of the evidence suggests that's really because immigration. they had a great deal of immigration from north africa and the difference of fertility rates between native frenchmen and immigrant is enormous. at the least, at the least half a kid and possibly more statistics coming from france are dodgy. they don't let you take the numbers in explicitly by race and country origin and all of that. you look at the thing and i want to tell you...
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some of us were able to go up and out. others of us could not. and so, we cleaved into two parts i think even then and i am not sure that those institutions that fought so hard at one time have fought the same tenacious battles for those who remain stuck today. so we have got the largest prison population in the world. over 2 million people, of the largest in the world-3/4 of those who face the death penalty are black and hispanic. half of the prison population is black. because of the way people's lives have been involved but also because of the unfairness in our criminal justice system. we see that for non-violent drug crimes. we constitute 14% of those who commit those crimes but roughly if i still have the figures right, if something like that a 6% of those prosecuted and close to 75% of those incarcerated. one sentence for a pound of cocaine and another sentence for crack-cocaine. the pound is essentially what white people used. the sentence is much lower than it is for crack-cocaine which is what black people have used. so the system is unf
some of us were able to go up and out. others of us could not. and so, we cleaved into two parts i think even then and i am not sure that those institutions that fought so hard at one time have fought the same tenacious battles for those who remain stuck today. so we have got the largest prison population in the world. over 2 million people, of the largest in the world-3/4 of those who face the death penalty are black and hispanic. half of the prison population is black. because of the way...